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British late-Victorian album with "Ally Sloper" characters and other scraps

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0044
Abstract

This late Victorian-era scrap album, likely made by a young British boy, bears a black lacquered board cover adorned with a hand-painted bouquet of flowers, ferns, and foliage. Contents include die-cut color scraps of animals, flowers, and a color set of characters from "Ally Sloper," the popular Victorian comic strip. A set of colored transfer prints depict fables and nursery rhymes and a set of color-printed square cards depicts the Stations of the Cross.

Dates: approximately 1880s

Early twentieth-century British children's scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0038
Abstract

This early twentieth-century British children's scrapbook, compiled by an unknown child, contains colorful die-cut scraps and collected images of children, flowers, animals, clowns, pastoral scenes, uniformed British military, folktale characters, depictions of children's games, depictions of Santa Claus, and other Christmas scenes.

Dates: approximately 1895-1905